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O Youth! Here you see seriousness and play, / Does this Print-Picture please you well (...)
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Sheet with twelve depictions of various entertainments. Below each picture a six-line verse. Numbered top right: No. 3. 1809.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineo Jeugd! gy ziet hier ernst en spel, / Behaagt dit Print-tafreel U wel (...). 1809. W. van Bergen. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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O Youth! Here you see seriousness and play; / If this print-plate pleases you, / Also pastime and other matters; / Then let it also amuse your spirit
O youth! you see here seriousness and play, / If this print picture pleases you well, / Also other pastimes; / Then let it amuse your spirit.
If the world is to go well, / Then everyone must stand in his place, / The man at work, the woman at home; / If order is overturned, it is not well
Children! If You Wish to Amuse Yourselves, / Come, Behold These Figures, / Each in Their Station and Deeds; / Let This Also Satisfy Your Love of Reading
See what in this print, each image and work signifies, / And choose, O children, the best for you
This print is worth double its price, / Where Ashpoeaster of the hearth, / And in the distress of the household, / Was yet elevated to a princess